I have heard it said that you can tell a home-schooler from a “regular” child because there is something “off” or “odd” about them. Not necessarily bad, mind you, just something a little unusual. This is complete nonsense. Everyone is a little “odd” compared to our entirely fictional standard of normalcy. I think the greatest …
Miss Corianne Birch is fifteen and dealing with all the usual problems attendant upon a girl entering a new school. Unfortunately she also has to deal with a cruel and dangerous hazing ritual which has already left one of her classmates in a state of nervous shock. Fortunately Corianne has a rather unusual guardian; the …
I was recently at a dinner gathering where I wound up engaged in conversation with a teacher. She was an English teacher, she said, she taught children how to write. She got very interested when she learned I was a writer, and asked how I dealt with my writer’s block. First I was amused that …
